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[iococoi]

17 minutes ago, yekker said:

 

kaputt

[YEK]

2 minutes ago, iococoi said:

kaputt

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[YEK]

On 7/19/2019 at 11:30 PM, yekker said:

 

If you don't want to watch this at least skip to 43 minute mark 

As someone said in the comments, it sums up the whole documentary. 

[YEK]

https://youtu.be/9Rah1F1zq1k

[cwmbrancity]

Of the range of documentaries surrounding The Troubles in the north of Eire recently, even after having spent so much time there, this seared its way into the mind like few manage:

Peter Taylor - My Journey Through The Troubles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007pb4/peter-taylor-my-journey-through-the-troubles

 

[tec]

On 7/21/2019 at 8:22 PM, yekker said:

If you don't want to watch this at least skip to 43 minute mark 

As someone said in the comments, it sums up the whole documentary. 

 

Fucking hell, you could have warned me. That was cold-blooded.

[Nebraska]

 

[ManjuShri]

Bauhaus 100

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today.

Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form this influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined that technology should never again be used for destruction, Gropius decided to reinvent the way art and design were taught. At the Bauhaus, all the disciplines would come together to create the buildings of the future, and define a new way of living in the modern world.

 

[Rubin Farr]

Interested in seeing this, it sucks that a decade later, Sanofi-Aventis and Chris Nolan never took any responsibility for contributing to this young man's death:

 

[ManjuShri]

À propos de Nice

À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and photographed by Boris Kaufman. The film depicts life in Nice, France by documenting the people in the city, their daily routines, a carnival and social inequalities. Vigo described the film in an address to the Groupement des Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde: "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial... the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution."

 

[cwmbrancity]

Cyprus Avenue.

Not really a doc or a tv series, but this seemed a semi-appropriate home as the BBC pulled its finger out for once.

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Eric Miller is a Belfast loyalist. He experiences a psychotic episode and mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams. Generations of sectarian trauma convince him that his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act. A hard-hitting but in parts hilarious black comedy, Cyprus Avenue tells the story of a man struggling with the past and terrified of the future. It was awarded Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards and the James Tait Black Prize for Drama in 2017. Stephen Rea won Best Actor for his portrayal of Eric at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2017.

Monstrous, hilarious, grotesque, sad as fk, skewers identity & the so-called Troubles (it was a war ffs), if you can access or dload else where well worth the time & effort.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008k8d/cyprus-avenue

 

 

 

[Nebraska]

 

[ManjuShri]

Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream

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Vienna was the capital of the Habsburg dynasty and home to the Holy Roman Emperors. From here, they dominated middle Europe for nearly 1,000 years. In this series, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore describes how the Habsburgs transformed Vienna into a multinational city of music, culture and ideas. Napoleon, Hitler, Mozart, Strauss, Freud, Stalin and Klimt all played their part.

 

1. In this first episode, we follow the Habsburgs' rise to power and discover how Vienna marked Europe's front line in the struggle to defend both Christendom from the Ottomans and the Catholic Church from the Protestant revolutionaries that plotted to destroy it.

2. Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the story of Vienna, triumphant after the Ottoman threat receded at the end of the 17th century. No longer an outpost defending the west from Islamic invaders, the imperial capital was to become the most glittering in the world. The Habsburg emperors transformed the city from a fortress into a great cultural capital. Vienna became a city that would define the arts; a magnet for musicians, including Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

3. In the final episode, Simon Sebag Montefiore follows the Habsburgs to their dramatic demise. From his struggles with Napoleon III and Bismarck and the suicide of his son Rudolf, to the assassination of his beautiful wife Sisi, Emperor Franz Josef's empire and his family proved impossible to control.

But while the Habsburgs headed for extinction, Vienna blossomed. As the theories of Freud and the sensuality of the secession artists like Klimt and Schiele ushered in the modern age, Hitler and Stalin stalked her streets. It was here that World War I was sparked; it was here where World War II was dreamed.

 

 

Edited October 6, 2019 by ManjuShri

[Nebraska]

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June Gibbons and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins" since they only communicated with each other. They began writing works of fiction but later turned to crime.

 

[ManjuShri]

Guitar, Drum, and Bass

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1. Drums
Stewart Copeland explores the drums as the founding instrument of popular modern music. Beats that travelled from Africa via New Orleans and across the world are the consistent force behind musical evolution.

2. Bass
Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club celebrates the extraordinary contribution of bass to popular music, tracing its progress from street-corner doo-wop and the overlooked ‘guy at the back’ in rock ‘n’ roll, via Paul McCartney, the anonymous James Jamerson and Carol Kaye - whose genius bass lines underpinned The Beatles, Motown and LA sound respectively - British jazzer Herbie Flowers’s immortal line in Walk on the Wild Side, the emergence of 70s funky bass stars Bootsy Collins and Chic’s Bernard Edwards, the driving lead bass of postpunk maverick Peter Hook in both Joy Division and New Order, through to the growth of bass culture in reggae, whose sound systems sparked whole new genres in drum and bass, grime and beyond.

3.Guitar

Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith’s guitarist, explains how the quest for new guitar sounds has driven the history of popular music, from Les Paul’s first guitar to Bo Diddley’s tremolo, Duane Eddy’s whammy bar, Keith Richards’s fuzz pedal, The Who’s feedback, The Byrds’ 12-string, Hendrix’s wah-wah pedal, Uli Roth and Van Halen’s shredding, The Edge’s digital delay, Ry Cooder’s slide, and KT Tunstall and Ed Sheeran’s looper pedals.

1. Drums
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u6jVjmH32-5muSDam6nhSexxEqBfpRmG/view

2. Bass
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JnQ1GcYLmRCe1EeGHbEeFS00XUwv6SE/view

3.Guitar
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MgEf2P_bJM-yZOkkx2lM7AabFCcKZM5/view

Edited October 7, 2019 by ManjuShri

[ManjuShri]

How Music Works

A series of four programmes – Melody, Rhythm, Harmony & Bass. Written and presented by Howard Goodall, the series won a number of awards.

1. Melody

2. Rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJPnAer7EM

3. Harmony
https://youtu.be/hTUXKWnHH-g

4. Bass
https://youtu.be/gZP5ACEtcv0

[IDEM]

A friendly algorithm recommended this feature-film-length synth-pop documentary, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of talking heads and singing boxes.

 Synth Brittania 

[ManjuShri]

 

[Limo]

On 10/27/2019 at 8:57 AM, IDEM said:

A friendly algorithm recommended this feature-film-length synth-pop documentary, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of talking heads and singing boxes.

 Synth Brittania 

Classic.

This, on the other hand, is not:

 

Some fun footage, though. 

Available on Amazon and on the channel for people Amazon won’t sell movies to.

[ManjuShri]

The Power Of The Placebo 

They are the miracle pills that shouldn't really work at all. Placebos come in all shapes and sizes, but they contain no active ingredient. Now they are being shown to help treat pain, depression and even alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Horizon explores why they work, and how we could all benefit from the hidden power of the placebo.

 

[ManjuShri]

The Placebo Experiment - Can My Brain Cure My Body?

Could the power of fake pills be used to treat some of our most common medical complaints? To find out, Dr Michael Mosley embarks on Britain's largest ever trial to investigate the placebo effect. He is heading to Blackpool to gather 117 people suffering from backache - one of the leading types of chronic pain - before trying to treat them with nothing but fake pills and the power of the mind.

Working with experts from the University of Oxford, Michael discovers that the placebo effect is more than just a medical curiosity. The brain is actually capable of producing its own drugs, and these can be more powerful than prescription painkillers. Michael's volunteers come from all walks of life, but they have all suffered with bad backs for years and feel their conventional medication isn't up to the job. They include Stacey, who is struggling to keep up with her two energetic daughters, wheelchair user Jim, who longs to be able to get back on a boat, and poker player Moyra, who is looking for a painkiller which doesn't affect her performance.

[YEK]

 

[Guest]

On 9/5/2019 at 10:21 PM, ManjuShri said:

À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and photographed by Boris Kaufman

Excellent! This makes me want to rewatch L'Atalante. Haven't seen in ages. 

[Nebraska]

 

[ManjuShri]

Visions of Light (1992)

The film covers the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema at the turn of the 20th century. Many filmmakers and cinematographers present their views and discuss why the art of cinematography is important within the craft of filmmaking.